PhD Student, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Anthony Ghaly holds a JD from Berkeley Law, where he was a submissions editor for the Berkeley Journal of International Law, Human Rights Center fellow, Miller fellow, and recipient of the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Clinical Student award for his work in the International Human Rights Law Clinic. He has also held legal internships at WITNESS and the International Federation for Human Rights. Prior to law school, Anthony received his BA from the Honors College of Rutgers University-Newark, where he graduated summa cum laude with a double-major in Political Science and Psychology and a minor in Economics.
Anthony’s research interests lie at the intersection of international criminal law and emerging technologies, including issues related to conflict-related sexual violence, reproductive harms, digital open-source investigations, and the emergence and commission of genocide. He is currently a researcher in the Investigations program at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center.
Publications:
- From Guns to Scalpels: Reproductive Violence and the (In)Visibility of Non-Lethal Genocidal Acts, Vand. J. Transnat’l L. (forthcoming May 2025).
- Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code: Applying Minimum Standards for the Safe, Ethical and Effective Gathering and Use of Open-Source Information About Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence— Pilot Version, Institute for International Criminal Investigations and Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (April 2025) (with Alexa Koenig & Ingrid Elliott).
- Why Guidance is Needed on Open-Source Investigations Into Sexual Violence, Just Security (31 March 2025) [blog post] (with Alexa Koenig).
- Merging Responsibilities: Ethical Considerations for Securing Consent in Open-Source Investigations of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, 22 J. Int'l Crim. Just. 263 (2024) (with Alexa Koenig & Simone Lieban Levine).
- Is 2022 the Year of Genocide? Recent Developments at the ICJ Suggest Yes, Opinio Juris (4 April 2022) [blog post] (with Alexa Koenig).
- Before Horror Strikes: Economic Disparity, Anti-elite Sentiment, and the Onset of Genocide, 19 Undergraduate J. Pol. 7 (2019).
JD, UC Berkeley School of Law (2023)
BA, Political Science and Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark (2020)